Our hospital system now offers email consulations to patients for $20/session. You can email the doc all your symptoms and can go back and forth and they can even do a diagnosis over the phone and call in a prescription for you (especially if you have been treated for something similiar before and it's nothing serious). I think it's a great idea and saves a trip to the doctor's office.
About email in general (not an email consultation) - I'm not sure. Some doctors can see up to 80 patients a day, I can only imagine what it would be like to have to respond to all those emails too - the waiting time to see your doctor is bad enough!
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Our hospital system now offers email consulations to patients for $20/session. You can email the doc all your symptoms and can go back and forth and they can even do a diagnosis over the phone and call in a prescription for you (especially if you have been treated for something similiar before and it's nothing serious). I think it's a great idea and saves a trip to the doctor's office.
About email in general (not an email consultation) - I'm not sure. Some doctors can see up to 80 patients a day, I can only imagine what it would be like to have to respond to all those emails too - the waiting time to see your doctor is bad enough!
March 2, 2008 - 6:30amThis Comment
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